The bill would also restrict DOD from reprogramming funding for southern border barrier construction and sharply reduce authority to move military construction money within appropriations accounts from $9.5 billion to $1.5 billion, as On Base has reported.

It would boost the Pentagon’s F-35 fighter fleet, appropriating 90 of the fifth-generation aircraft, 12 more than the Pentagon requested.

The Hill reported word of a deal on lifting fiscal 2020 spending caps could be possible as early as Tuesday night, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), which would raise defense spending above the House appropriators’ bill.

“Without a topline budget agreement, we aren’t making spending decisions based in reality,” said House Defense Appropriations subcommittee Ranking Member Ken Calvert (R-Calif.)